14 thoughts on “House of Leaves Labyrinth”

Good question. I’m not going to lie, I almost picked up a stack of magazines and some scissors and made a hands-on collage instead. I wasn’t sure if it would translate as well if I scanned it in, and I thought it would be easier digitally…it still took a million years.

It’s on page 266, when he meets the girl named Johnnie. One of the most advantageous things I’ve discovered in looking for things in the book is that its been uploaded to google books! This makes the entire text searchable, since the index itself is as unreliable as the novel’s narrators. Check it out here: http://tinyurl.com/bbkjo8z

Cool collage, Megan! Very evocative. My favorite pictures are the shadow alligator (crocodile?) and the ominous print in the lower left hand corner. And for some reason, the two guys mirroring each other with the black and white T-shirts makes me laugh.

Domesticity and savagery come together in this collage. Buttons next to a viper, puppy next to an alligator — your juxtapositioning is clearly conscious. As our minds begin to try to weave together a narrative, we find that we’re always about to be ambushed by something unexpected. When we expect the warmth of the domestic, it’s interrupted by the savage; when we go looking for horror, we just as often find calm. These two things live so close together in the work you’ve done here that we’re forced to think of them as adjacent. There could be towels and linens in the closet, or there could be……

14 thoughts on “House of Leaves Labyrinth”

Good question. I’m not going to lie, I almost picked up a stack of magazines and some scissors and made a hands-on collage instead. I wasn’t sure if it would translate as well if I scanned it in, and I thought it would be easier digitally…it still took a million years.

It’s on page 266, when he meets the girl named Johnnie. One of the most advantageous things I’ve discovered in looking for things in the book is that its been uploaded to google books! This makes the entire text searchable, since the index itself is as unreliable as the novel’s narrators. Check it out here: http://tinyurl.com/bbkjo8z

Cool collage, Megan! Very evocative. My favorite pictures are the shadow alligator (crocodile?) and the ominous print in the lower left hand corner. And for some reason, the two guys mirroring each other with the black and white T-shirts makes me laugh.

Domesticity and savagery come together in this collage. Buttons next to a viper, puppy next to an alligator — your juxtapositioning is clearly conscious. As our minds begin to try to weave together a narrative, we find that we’re always about to be ambushed by something unexpected. When we expect the warmth of the domestic, it’s interrupted by the savage; when we go looking for horror, we just as often find calm. These two things live so close together in the work you’ve done here that we’re forced to think of them as adjacent. There could be towels and linens in the closet, or there could be……